Comments on: WOC 2023 Long Analysis: Tricky legs and interesting route choices http://news.worldofo.com/2023/07/14/woc-2023-long-analysis-tricky-legs-and-interesting-route-choices/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Kako http://news.worldofo.com/2023/07/14/woc-2023-long-analysis-tricky-legs-and-interesting-route-choices/#comment-133712 Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:04:22 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=19272#comment-133712 Congrats, Jan.
Your analysis are so precise and full of knowledge. I’m learning a lot reading this. And more happy because our brazilian orienteer Priscilla was shown here. Many thanks.

]]> By: Jan Kocbach http://news.worldofo.com/2023/07/14/woc-2023-long-analysis-tricky-legs-and-interesting-route-choices/#comment-133710 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:50:35 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=19272#comment-133710 @Terje: It was in the uphill from the map exchange and up to the 31st control Matthias increased the gap, but of course it was not very steep uphill. And he might have fired a bit too early.

Regarding Tove, she lost 2:01 on the leg according to the official splits which is what is shown in the analysis above. She was faster on the first part of the leg (7 seconds until crossing the road), but she then took a poorer route choice (running up instead of continuing on the height she was running), and lost more than those seconds before she started doing her mistake. So I don’t think she lost more than the 2 minutes…

]]> By: Terje Wiig Mathisen http://news.worldofo.com/2023/07/14/woc-2023-long-analysis-tricky-legs-and-interesting-route-choices/#comment-133709 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:37:07 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=19272#comment-133709 Jan, you are probably correct, but I still think that Kasper, like Tove, was able to execute that brutal route choice on the last long leg much better than almost all the other runners. Matthias was clearly a tiny bit faster than Kasper on the fast running legs (downhill or roads), but Kasper could still be faster at uphill terrain running.

Another detail re. the women and Tove’s first big mistake: On the GPS tracking you could see that she had almost caught up with Andrine just before she started her downhill mistake. Is it possible that she lost even more than 2 min here?

]]> By: Jan Kocbach http://news.worldofo.com/2023/07/14/woc-2023-long-analysis-tricky-legs-and-interesting-route-choices/#comment-133708 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:26:46 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=19272#comment-133708 @Lukas: I also heard that Matthias said so. I still think he would have won if he would have chosen to run straight. He increased his lead gradually to Kasper on the last loop until they took different route choices, so it looked like he was stronger physically. Kasper lost 28 seconds to Joey Hadorn on this leg (they both took the same route), while Matthias run approximately the same time as Emil Svensk who took his route (and had a very strong finish). I will update the article with some more illustrations from this leg so this is clearer.

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